Method for calendaring future events in real-time

A calendar mechanism for a scheduler system controlling the operation of a plurality of machines, comprising:

• a timing means which is adapted to be incremented by the system;
• a means for dividing future time spans into a plurality of segments of unequal length, assigning each of a plurality of buckets to correspond to each of the plurality of segments, wherein later segments are predetermined multiples of the length of the first segment;
• a means for receiving inputted events from the system and placing said inputted events in appropriate buckets representative of the time segments received from said segmenter;
• a means for removing events from a first bucket when the incremented clock reaches their calendared time and outputting such event to the system for appropriate response by the machine;
• and
• a controlling means for dividing the events contained in later buckets among appropriate earlier buckets when previous buckets have been emptied, and resetting the time represented by the first bucket to the current time.